2 posts tagged “brain farts”

So, I think I may have a slight case of dyslexia because I did it again. I read the subject line at R.G. Ryan's vox as Cooked Crayons instead of Crooked Canyons.

So, here is my (fictional) Cooked Crayons story....

He loves to draw, my son does. He doesn't care for paint, much preferring chalk, pencil, pen or crayon. He collects old coffee cans and fills them with crayon nubs, and chalk dust. There is a purpose to his collection. He uses the chalk dust on his fingers to sketch out ideas. If he likes where the idea is going, he will then use his pencil to detail the sketch. He says doing it this way, he doesn't waste what he has.

I have shown him how he can use chalk dust as a resist, when he is using crayons. He loves that, he creates many interesting designs and manages to create interesting perspectives using this idea. Yesterday I saw him using the resist technique with other types of tools and mediums. It is fun to see him reinvent the wheel, his experiments keep him creative.

The cans of crayon nubs are sorted into types. Some are sorted by color and some are shaved to create color resists and the rest are mixed and placed on the table for me to melt down. I pour them in silicone muffin pans and place multi-colored nubs into each melt so that when they harden, there will be occasional color bursts. When the cooked crayons are hard, we cut them in half, so he can hold them properly and away he goes.

In a grand attempt at misdirection and misleading reading, my eyes scanned the above headline. Of course, that was not what it actually said, the second look being more than a quick glance I discerned the true headline. "Bush fights on Two Fronts". Now the actually story does not really enter into this post, instead I would like to invite you into the vivid imagination that is mine.

You see before you, Bush fighting two cartooned and animated fonts, Adobe and TTF fight it out on two fronts, surrounding Bush with a strategic move. The animated characters then # a % of pointed ^s into Bush's ear. Just when they think they have him, Bush then outmaneuvers them with a quick capture, grabbing their () and {} in both hands and capping them with G-Force. In a fit of rage, the two fonts remove the B from Bush and replaces it with a P. The fonts then ;) and LOL about as Push falls to the ground and cries foul.

U C, Fonts don't fight fare.